What premium stuff is worth the extra

Spendi

My premium list of essentials !

Branded Coffee ( Dowe Egbert's or Kenco but i stock up when its on offer and bulk it out with cheaper Tesco or Sainsburys gold brand )
Charmin Loo Roll ( always on offer at makro )
Bounty Kitchen Towels ( again nearly always on offer at makro )
Brabantia Bin Liners ( but bought from makro or in bulk on ebay )
Royal Canin Cat food ( cat has an allergy and cant eat anything else )
Nivea Deodorant

Thats about all i can think of !

Softstuff

I've been sat on my hands a bit reading some of these, trying not to judge choices, since everyone has their own tastes and budgets...

but I just have to say... brabantia bin liners???

isn't buying branded bin liners a bit like throwing your money directly in the bin?

milkydrink

Softstuff wrote: »

I've been sat on my hands a bit reading some of these, trying not to judge choices, since everyone has their own tastes and budgets...

but I just have to say... brabantia bin liners???

isn't buying branded bin liners a bit like throwing your money directly in the bin?

LOL

Brabantia bin liners are the best fit for their bins. You could use black saxs but they wouldn't reach the bottom propery & they would be bunched & fiddly around the top, so I buy them.

I bought my bin when it first came out, £90:eek:

I was shopping with my DH some time later when they had came down in price & he saw one & said "look, thats like our bin £70 &$*% what idiot would spend that kind of mo0ney on bin!!!"

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Softstuff

kimevans wrote: »

LOL

Brabantia bin liners are the best fit for their bins. You could use black saxs but they wouldn't reach the bottom propery & they would be bunched & fiddly around the top, so I buy them.

I bought my bin when it first came out, £90:eek:

I was shopping with my DH some time later when they had came down in price & he saw one & said "look, thats like our bin £70 &$*% what idiot would spend that kind of mo0ney on bin!!!"

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Well, again, not to deliberately sound funny.... but the reason other bin liners most likely don't fit brabantia bins is that brabantia make their bins deliberately a bit differently sized so people will buy their liners.

Funny bit is I sell the bins, and the liners where I work.

When I bought my bin here I paid $20 (about 8 quid), it's stainless steel, like the brabantia, yet it's also sized to take free carrier bags. And there's a lil twist and tuck trick to hid the tops of bin bags I learned whilst working in housekeeping.... you pop the bag in the inner container, fold it over the side, twist the remains tight and tuck it under itself, then drop the container in the bin casing. Voila, no messy overhang.

Bargain_Rzl

DKLS wrote: »

Cant give up good quality Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar

IMHO you should try Lidl. Their range is very good and inexpensive.

, and defo cant give up M&S ready meals, I tried the Asda range which is rank.

So don't eat ready meals (here speaks the voice of hypocrisy, by the way - I do have the occasional M&S ready meal But I do so on nights when I would otherwise have a takeaway, rather than on nights when I would otherwise have a home-cooked meal IYSWIM)

I am glad so many people have said sausages. These days I only buy proper sausages from the butcher, or (if they are reduced to silly money) supermarket premium ranges. Did anybody see the feature on Saturday Cooks this weekend on ITV? They did a taste test of supermarket pork sausages; Asda's Extra Special ones came out on top, but the panel did say that they weren't that impressed with any of them in comparison with non-supermarket sausages!

I almost always buy Carte Noire coffee, Tesco Fairtrade tea, President butter (for eating on bread etc - for cooking I buy Tesco Value or similar), organic milk, organic free-range eggs. I like decent jams and marmalade too (though as with the sausages, I prefer to buy these from independent places). I buy decent bread, when I don't make it myself. And as for beauty products, I use Tresemme shampoo and conditioner - which always seem to be on BOGOF somewhere - and some quite expensive face products and cosmetics which I buy when there's a Boots voucher deal or similar. I agree 100% with Impy78 on the Mitchum deodorant, too - the Boots ownbrand equivalent range just doesn't work.

Other things??? Oh yes... Coca-Cola, Marmite, Bombay Sapphire gin, Kallo organic stock cubes. Cheese comes from independent suppliers if it's "for eating", but in the big blocks from Iceland if it's for use in cheese sauce or as a quick snack on toast with Marmite :drool:

catznine

We have got to have good quality coffee, we often buy the beans and grind our own.

Extra virgin olive oil definately!

organic eggs (yes we can taste the difference!)

organic milk

Meat and fish (just isn't worth cutting back on the quality here)

Idiophreak

I don't really buy into brands, but there are a few I would miss:

Fairy Liquid
Heinz Beans
Coke
PG Tips

Littlemiss-lotsofdebt

I don't really buy many branded items (at least I don't think I do) although left to do the shopping, that is all OH would get! For us, the following items are a must:

Coffee - OH likes the dark roast varieties
Tea - Usually Tetley cos I like the Earl Grey & Vanilla
Beans - OH will only eat Heinz, I'm not really fussed either way
Bread - Always branded, usually Warburtons or Tesco Finest
Toilet Roll - Never value, whatever is on offer
Kitchen Roll - Never value, whatever is on offer
Washing Up Liquid - Has to be Fairy, anything else never lasts as well

I don't actually buy that many Value things, I usually strike a balance and go for the supermarket middle of the range.

lex

Ooo I like this thread! the "what value stuff" comes around fairly frequently, but it's interesting to see what we won't comprimise on.

I thought the only thing we bought premium was pork chops...but then I read all the other replies!

Here's my list

Pork chops (regular ones just taste watery)
Andrex Toilet roll (just the regular one)
PG Tips
Fairy Liquid
Heinz baked beans (we only eat about 3 tins a year anyway - and I don't like them - baked beans are furry)
Vegetable Bouillon

I'm sure there are more...!

lex

wyebird

Green and Black's chocolate.

Benn and Jerry's frozen yogurt (chocolate brownie) Low fat and tastes nothing like low fat